Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yotam Ottolenghi

Dad likes my food, but he probably thinks it's too busy. He is a wonderful cook but only uses three ingredients. My mum rips out my articles and makes my recipes.

Werner Herzog

Film should be looked at straight on; it is not the art of scholars but of illiterates.

Warren Farrell

I'm a great supporter of women who take risks and don't make victimhood into an art. It's not good for women, and it's not good for men. Too many men put all their emotional eggs in one basket - a woman's basket.

William Quigley

Art should be witty, like a good Eddie Murphy movie, to make your life a little easier and better.

Will Shetterly

Country music, the music of the white rural working class, has often been mocked by elitists whose understanding of power and art was shaped at expensive private schools.

Will Shetterly

Is art influential? It can be - 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' rallied abolitionists, and 'The Jungle' provoked the demand for a safer food industry.

Will Sergeant

I guess some fans like art and get it, others are just into the music, don't really turn up and have an opinion. The fans that have shown interest are all with me all the way.

Will Champlin

Competition is all in numbers; it's a numbers game, but I looked at it like it's a passion, and it's art.

Walead Beshty

I was interested in making work that physically changed as it circulated through the art world.

Virginia Postrel

Lofts were never supposed to be homes. They were vacant old factories and warehouses, taken over by artists looking for cheap space and good light.

Clive Thompson

Truly huge artistic collaboration on the Internet seems to work only if the gang has a well-defined objective.

Elaine Stritch

If I see a great performance on television, onstage, in the movies, I go to work the next day with a renewed energy and less fear. These great artists take me out of my life and make me want to go there.

David Byrne

Some artists and indie musicians see Spotify fairly positively - as a way of getting noticed, of getting your music out there where folks can hear it risk-free.

David Byrne

Some folks believe that hardship breeds artistic creativity. I don't buy it. One can put up with poverty for a while when one is young, but it will inevitably wear a person down.

David Byrne

I've made money, and I've been ripped off. I've had creative freedom, and I've been pressured to make hits. I have dealt with diva behavior from crazy musicians, and I have seen genius records by wonderful artists get completely ignored. I love music. I always will.

Jason Schultz

The patent system serves an important public purpose in our economy. Keeping illegitimate patents out of that system helps up-and-coming artists and entrepreneurs succeed for all of us.

S. E. Hinton

'The Outsiders' cast in particular was a joy to be around - sweet kids, normal goofy teenagers off camera and serious artists on. They were great. I never got them mixed up with the characters, though. Each of them had his own strong personality.

Common

Oh man, I love what the South brings as far as the soul, and I really have noticed from even the early days of listening to OutKast and Goodie Mob that Atlanta and the South has a diverse sound to it. You have bounce music. You have soulful musicians. You have artists with vocals who try to do different things.

Kofi Annan

the overall epidemic continues to expand with much of the world at risk of falling short of the targets set forth in the declaration.

Bruce Jackson

The web continues to be a source of important photographs you see nowhere else.

Donald Trump

It's my life. It just continues to go forward from 'The Apprentice.'

Douglas Coupland

The whole point of Gen X was, and continues to be, a negation of being forced into Baby Boomerdom against one's will.

Lao Tzu

Heaven is long-enduring, and earth continues long. The reason why heaven and earth are able to endure and continue thus long is because they do not live of, or for, themselves.

William McKinley

We have looked at literally hundreds of investing styles and systems over the years. The Stock Picker RT has consistently picked winners since the initial launch and continues to be one of the most recommended programs that we offer.

F. E. Smith

The world continues to offer glittering prizes to those who have stout hearts and sharp swords.

Carol Guzy

I think many times news organizations, whether it's for lack of resources or something else, cover the headlines and don't follow up, even though the story continues for the people living there - they can't leave. I think it's critical that they do these follow-up stories to realize that there is still suffering, and the need is dire.

Mike Rounds

Our fish, our recreation, our irrigation and all our uses of the Missouri River are threatened if the drought continues and the Corps of Engineers decisions aren't changed.

Dougray Scott

You'd have to have one hell of an imagination to completely make up a story, but historians are very anal about what they think should be portrayed on screen. Thankfully they don't make movies; we do.

Pat Conroy

Writing is more about imagination than anything else. I fell in love with words. I fell in love with storytelling.

Geraldine McCaughrean

I had a very happy childhood, but I still used my imagination as a leisure resort.

London Fletcher

We still have a lot of work to do. By no stretch of the imagination are we comfortable with what happened.

Alan Greenspan

You have to really stretch your imagination to infer what the intrinsic value of Bitcoin is. I haven't been able to do it. Maybe somebody else can.

Philip Schultz

I do think that there is a profound reservoir of creativity and imagination in everyone I've ever met, and sometimes if someone is persistent and perversely obstinate enough to persevere, then they want to be helped. There is a way to help them.

Paul Bloom

Imagination tends to be truly useful if accompanied by the power of mental control - if the worlds in one's head can be purposefully manipulated and distinguished from the real one outside it.

Paul Bloom

Imagination is Reality Lite - a useful substitute when the real pleasure is inaccessible, too risky, or too much work.

Albert Einstein

To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.

Common

I can only speak for myself - there were times when I just wasn't inspired by creating music.

Nikki Sixx

What inspires me? I am so inspired every day. I am inspired by thinkers. I am inspired by rebellion. I am inspired by children. I have been inspired by love.

William Fonville

When I get inspired to write, the song just seems to come to me all at once. All I have to do is keep living to stay inspired.

Lisa Hannigan

Stephen Colbert has such a loyal following; I don't know if it's the same with Jay Leno; he really inspires love in people, and there can be a lucky ricochet of that for some people.

Marcus Samuelsson

I want people to understand my journey and to be inspired by that. You can be an immigrant, and if you work really hard, you can have your own restaurant.

Charles Spurgeon

The modern [endtimes] notion has greatly damped the zeal of the church for missions, and the sooner it is shown to be unscriptural the better for the cause of God. It neither consorts with prophecy, honours God, nor inspires the church with ardour

Mark Cuban

I love to compete. I want to get out there and kick your ass in the business world. That is what inspires me.

Edward Jenner

I shall endeavour still further to prosecute this inquiry, an inquiry I trust not merely speculative, but of sufficient moment to inspire the pleasing hope of its becoming essentially beneficial to mankind.

Benedict Cumberbatch

My assessment of Julian Assange is a professional one, really, of what he's managed to achieve, and the idea that he came up with, which set the world alight and continues to inspire others like Snowden [NSA leaker Edward Snowden], about the secret goings-on that are done in our name with our tax dollars on behalf of big business or politics. He launched the revolutionary idea that citizens can start to claim back a paradigm for questioning power structures and those in authority through an anonymous, whistle-blowing website.

Zubin Mehta

Most Arab Israelis speak Hebrew, but not the other way around. It's about time that changed.

Ban Ki-moon

I have been, and will remain, outspoken in my insistence that Israel has a right to live in peace and security.

Nabil Amr

we are ready to take over all the territories from which the Israelis will withdraw.

Charles Spurgeon

The Master knows better than to exhaust His servants and quench the light of Israel. Rest time is not waste time. It is economy to gather fresh strength.

Al Sharpton

I am in hell already. I am in Israel.

Al Pacino

Take a look at Israel's history and you would know who the terrorist is.

Benjamin Netanyahu

The entire world is focusing on the compromises that are necessary from Israel's side. But people [in the world] are not focusing on the fact that the Palestinians refuse to make the necessary compromises that are required on their side for peace.

Benjamin Netanyahu

The instability in the region is not a result of Israel and the Palestinians. That was never the cause of this instability. Instead, the disfunctionality of many of these societies that have failed to modernize.

Benjamin Netanyahu

Hamas is simply continuing all its operations. And Israel will not let this terror operation decide when it's convenient for them and not convenient for them to attack our people.

Zubin Mehta

Most Arab Israelis speak Hebrew, but not the other way around. It's about time that changed.

Nabil Amr

we are ready to take over all the territories from which the Israelis will withdraw.

Tom Foreman

You can say for sure that the U.S. did not know about the Israeli raid before it happened.

Paul Spiegel

That will be between the Vatican and the Israeli government,

Steve Landes

When Salah was arrested, it was a very public event. It would not have been smart for Israeli officials to subject Salah to the torture he is claiming.

Jibril Rajoub

This shows how serious the Israelis are about security,

Sandra Postel

Water is an undercurrent to tensions between Israelis and Palestinians.

Kim Howells

We all want to see Israelis and Palestinians living side by side in peace and security.

Ismail Haniyeh

Our people will not ... kneel before such Israeli measures.

Compay Segundo

I play music the way it was played in yesteryear.

Chino Moreno

I don't watch TV. In my spare time, if I have any, I want to make music.

Chet Faker

My high school career counsellor said I shouldn't pursue music as a career.

Ellie Goulding

People always try to find my agenda, but I don't really have one. It's safe to say that I make pop, but I think that I'm doing important music, too. I've just always done what I wanted to do.

Edward Norton

I like music, but I need to get outside more.

David Byrne

We tend to mistake music for the physical object.

David Byrne

Music has to be sort of ignorable sometimes.

David Byrne

Before recording technology existed, you could not separate music from its social context.

Brittany Howard

To me, if you're a musician, then you're interested in music, and if you're interested in music, then you should listen to a lot of different types.

Casey Wilson

I am riveted by Phaedra Parks and her performance of herself. She kills me.

Gennaro Gattuso

There is little to say after that performance,

Fabio Capello

We could have used a performance like that on our side.

Mark Morris

A recording of a performance is a recording of a performance. It's not the performance.

Richard Lewis

My performance level has risen - and my anxiety-level has sky-rocketed.

Gin Wigmore

It's easy listening to a record, but a live performance is so personal and real.

Scott Winfrey

We played pretty well tonight. I was proud of our performance, and we were threatening.

Theresa Gattung

We're very pleased with the performance in the New Zealand business.

Lee McConnell

We're very pleased with our performance, but the Poles have protested,

Bonnie Langford

The pushy showbiz kid thing was always the performance, not the person. I'm very solitary. I don't like socialising.

Donald Gher

We're doing OK. Are we going gangbusters? No. As we get into the week after Christmas, you're going to have another push upward of sales.

Cheryl Lynn

I was upset with Delbert, because there he was going again and pushing me out in front, without asking me.

Ned Yost

We were getting short out there. You can't keep pushing it.

Rudy Murillo

We're really pushing this year to get the youth involved.

Bob Lachky

We're really pushing this hard, and we're starting to see some momentum.

John Danforth

We are not suggesting the resignation or pushing for the resignation of the secretary-general,

Fred Couples

We were trying to push each other on.

Charlotte Bronte

Shake me off, then, sir--push me away; for I'll not leave you of my own accord.

Valeria Golino

What I am really curious about is the visuals of cinema... the form.

Asif Kapadia

My interest in filmmaking was always very much the visuals and images.

Anton Corbijn

When you make a movie, you know you're making a long-form thing, so the visuals are different than for a video where it has to be more obvious or in your face, I think, a little bit.

Stevie Wonder

is a different kind of lyric; it's very picturesque. I can see everything that I'm writing, I can visualize all those things happening.

Louis Cataldie

I don't think a visual identification will be possible. It's not about the numbers. It's about the body.

Louis Cataldie

I don't think visual identification will be a possibility,

Elliott Erwitt

A visual sense is something you either have or you don't.

Lenny Kravitz

When I hear music, it’s visual; I see things,

Annie Lennox

I have always been a very visual person and a keen observer.

Valentino Castellani

We are having a party. A wonderful party.

Walter Benjamin

This planet is a wonderful place, but a vulnerable place.

William Shakespeare

O wonderful, wonderful, and most wonderful wonderful! And yet again wonderful, and after that, out of all hooping.

Alan Moore

Now everything is wonderful and hazardous and nothing's hypothetical.

Alan Alda

I'm in this wonderful position where I can do what interests me. And whatever comes along that interests me, I do. The rest of the time I bother scientists about communicating.

Casey Stengel

It's wonderful to meet so many friends that I didn't used to like.

Astrid Lindgren

Don't let them get you down. Be cheeky. And wild. And wonderful.

Daniel Handler

How can someone so wonderful do something so terrible?

Bette Midler

If you can accept your differentness and learn to love it and encourage it, then you can be someone wonderful.